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How to Teach Adjectives Adjectives: Teach that an adjective describes a noun. Adjectives tell which one? What kind? And how many? Ask student to think of a noun such as a dog. Ask student to write many adjectives to describe the dog. Scribe for the student if necessary. Teach a, an, and the as adjectives. Student may use the term article if that is what they are using in school, but tell them the article functions as an adjective. Teach possessive adjectives. These possible adjectives show ownership such as my, his, our. These are possessive pronouns that are functioning as adjectives. Provide simple sentences such as: The hungry, brown dog ate. Have the student read the sentence, analyze and label the sentence, diagram the sentence and read the sentence from the diagram. Always have student draw an arrow from the adjective to the noun it describes. Show the student a variety of pictures and ask student to write simple sentences with adjectives that describe subjects and action verbs. Analyze, label and diagram these sentences. Have the student identify the simple subject, simple predicate and the adjectives in each of his/her sentences. Make sure your sentences have action verbs and not linking verbs. The adjectives should always come before the noun it modifies and not after unless you are using a prepositional phrase as an adjective modifier. When asking a student to identify and diagram the parts of speech in a sentence, remember to only include the parts of speech you have already taught the student. Always identify the nouns and verbs in a sentence first. Then have the student find the nouns and identify the adjectives that modify the nouns. Have the student draw an arrow from each adjective to the noun it modifies. Sample sentences the student might write: SS SP Six mean dogs barked. Adj. adj Noun SS action verb SP The two women ate. Adj. DII December 2011 adj. Noun act. verb